Authors:
Widiyani*, Edhy Susatya, Hendro Widodo, & Suyatno ,Indonesia |
Abstract:
This research is motivated by the low quality of education in Indonesia, especially the basic
education level. One effort that can be done so that schools become active places in improving
the quality of education is through partnerships or educational collaboration with parties outside
the school. The purpose of this study is to explain planning, analyze implementation, and
evaluate school partnership programs in improving the quality of education in the Islamic
Elementary School of Muhammadiyah Delanggu. Researchers used a descriptive study with a
qualitative approach. Data collection techniques in this study were in-depth interviews,
participant observation and documentation. Data analysis techniques used are data collection,
data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and verification. The results showed
that: 1) the partnership program planning was carried out by creating an annual work program of
activities that was in line with the vision and mission of the school, determining the time of
implementing the partnership program in accordance with the education calendar, making a list
of potential partners to work with, and determining suitable partners with the vision and mission
of the school, can be trusted, and mutual benefit. 2) the implementation of the school partnership
program is carried out by holding an MoU with partner institutions, the implementation of
partnership programs related to the development of interests, talents, and achievements is done
by working together to provide supporting staff from other institutions, the implementation of
partnership programs in the form of International Mobility is packaged in the form of
comparative studies to existing schools abroad, partnership programs are mutualism partnerships,
the benefits of school partnership programs are improving school performance so that public
trust in the school increases. (3) evaluation of the school partnership program is carried out by:
analyzing the suitability of the implementation of the school partnership program with planning,
the results of the evaluation are used as a foothold to determine whether a program will continue
to be implemented, improved, or stopped, knowing the supporting factors for the success of the
partnership program, namely excellent support from students, teachers, parents, and partners, and
find out the inhibiting factors of the school partnership program namely funding problems,
schools collaborate with student guardians to solve these inhibiting factors.
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